Perfect. That's all set. Now I have a question. I installed a Seagate 320GB ATA100 HD into my MDD and it's only showing as having 298GB available. What gives? Is there a way to access the other 20gigs?

Perfect. That's all set. Now I have a question. I installed a Seagate 320GB ATA100 HD into my MDD and it's only showing as having 298GB available. What gives? Is there a way to access the other 20gigs?

Thats because hard drive companies consider 1000KB as 1MB rather than the actual 1024KB that computers see as 1MB. This is the case with all HD's. Thats why 80GB are really 74GB, 120gb are really 112GB etc.

I have the same 320GB seagate in my MDD and also get 298. BTW.. there is no limit to how big a drive MDD's can take.

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